Students can evaluate the differences and similarities among the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese societies.
Students can evaluate how much of each country’s geography influences the modern day behavior of its people.
Students can analyze common stereotypes of each nation.
Students can identify the major geographical features, i.e. rivers, oceans, seas, mountain ranges, topography, climates, etc. in Pacific Asia.
Students can identify the important human geographical features of the region.
Area of Study: East Asian Religion and Philosophy
Student can analyze and evaluate the influence of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Shinto in those countries where those philosophies are present.
Students can compare and contrast the major values, ethics and views on human nature and government of each religion/philosophy.
Students can identify and evaluate each religion/philosophy in terms of contemporary Asian society.
Area of Study: East Asian History Prior to Western Contact of the late 18th Century
Students can identify the major epochs (dynasties, rulers) and their contributions to the respective societies of China, Korea and Japan.
Students can analyze some of the factors which contributed to the successes and failures of those epochs.
Area of Study: Western Contact and Imperialism
Students can analyze each of the three countries, Japan, Korea, and China, within the context of their respective encounters with the West.
Students can evaluate the different reactions each country had towards the West.
Students can trace Japan’s rise as an imperial power.
Students can explain the role of nationalism and militarism in modern Japan.
Students can evaluate the actions of Japan in China and Korea in the period leading up to World War II.
Students can discuss and evaluate the issue of reparations for victims of Japan's military aggression.
Area of Study: Twentieth Century Korea (with focus on the Korean War and its aftermath)
Students can understand the causes of the Korean War within the context of the Cold War.
Students can trace the course of the war.
Students can evaluate US and Chinese interference in the war.
Students can evaluate the outcomes of the war and the prospects for reunification.
Area of Study: China and Japan in the Post-World War Era
Students can identify the economic and political changes which took place in post-war China and Japan.
Students can evaluate the immediate and long term effects of the Revolution on China.
Students can analyze the policies of Mao Zedong, and the impact of those policies on China's society and economy.
Students can identify the forces involved in the restructuring of China after Mao.
Students can evaluate China's accendancy to becoming a world power.
GRADE LEVEL: 10
Area of Study: East Asian Geography and Society
Area of Study: East Asian Religion and Philosophy
Area of Study: East Asian History Prior to Western Contact of the late 18th Century
Area of Study: Western Contact and Imperialism
Area of Study: Twentieth Century Korea (with focus on the Korean War and its aftermath)
Area of Study: China and Japan in the Post-World War Era